Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 40Society, 1906 - Archaeology Includes List of members. |
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... Mould for Casting Flat Axes from Auchterless ; and ( 4 ) two Star - shaped Beads from Aberdeenshire . By J. GRAHAM CALLANDER , F.S. A. Scot . , 15 23-39 Notice of the Discovery of a Stone Cist , containing an Unburnt Burial and an Urn ...
... Mould for Casting Flat Axes from Auchterless ; and ( 4 ) two Star - shaped Beads from Aberdeenshire . By J. GRAHAM CALLANDER , F.S. A. Scot . , 15 23-39 Notice of the Discovery of a Stone Cist , containing an Unburnt Burial and an Urn ...
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... Mould for casting Spear - heads , a Cup - marked Stone , Holy - water Stoup , and other Anti- quities in Strathnaver , Sutherlandshire . By Rev. ANGUS MACKAY , M.A. , Westerdale , Halkirk , On Vitrified Forts , with Results of ...
... Mould for casting Spear - heads , a Cup - marked Stone , Holy - water Stoup , and other Anti- quities in Strathnaver , Sutherlandshire . By Rev. ANGUS MACKAY , M.A. , Westerdale , Halkirk , On Vitrified Forts , with Results of ...
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... representation of an Engagement with Paul Jones , Incised Slab found at Langdale , PAGE 11 13 16 21 26 26 27 34 38 41 43 49 62 64 65 67 69 70 71 72 73 74 78 79 80 81 82 83 92 93 128 PAGE Half of a Stone Mould for Spear - heads PAGE.
... representation of an Engagement with Paul Jones , Incised Slab found at Langdale , PAGE 11 13 16 21 26 26 27 34 38 41 43 49 62 64 65 67 69 70 71 72 73 74 78 79 80 81 82 83 92 93 128 PAGE Half of a Stone Mould for Spear - heads PAGE.
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. PAGE Half of a Stone Mould for Spear - heads found at Langdale , 129 Cup - marked Stone at Grumbeg , 131 Portion of a Vitrified Mass from Eilean nan Gobhar , showing impressions of woody fibre , 145 ...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. PAGE Half of a Stone Mould for Spear - heads found at Langdale , 129 Cup - marked Stone at Grumbeg , 131 Portion of a Vitrified Mass from Eilean nan Gobhar , showing impressions of woody fibre , 145 ...
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... MOULD FOR CASTING FLAT AXES AND BARS FOUND AT PITDOULZIE , IN THE PARISH OF AUCHTERLESS ; AND ( 4 ) TWO STAR - SHAPED BEADS OF PORCELLANEOUS PASTE FROM ABERDEENSHIRE . BY J. GRAHAM CALLANDER , F.S. A. SCOT . I. TWO STONE CISTS , EACH ...
... MOULD FOR CASTING FLAT AXES AND BARS FOUND AT PITDOULZIE , IN THE PARISH OF AUCHTERLESS ; AND ( 4 ) TWO STAR - SHAPED BEADS OF PORCELLANEOUS PASTE FROM ABERDEENSHIRE . BY J. GRAHAM CALLANDER , F.S. A. SCOT . I. TWO STONE CISTS , EACH ...
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14 inches 9 inches Aberdeenshire appear Archæological Banffshire Bar Hill base beads Bon Homme Richard bones breadth Bronze Bronze Age burial cairn Castle centre church circular cist clay colour Countess of Scarborough Cup-marked cups ditch east edge Edinburgh excavations F.S.A. Scot flat foot fragments Glasgow grave ground-plan guns House inch thick inches inches in diameter inches in height inches in length inches long iron JAMES JOHN Leith lines LL.D Loch London measures megaliths mile moulding mound Museum Nine Maidens Northmavine objects ornament oval parish Paul Jones pieces pitchpipe Pittodrie plate portion Praetorium probably rampart Refuse-Hole relics remains ring Road Roman round Scotland Serapis Shetland ship shows side skull slab Society specimens square Standing Stones Stevenston Stone Circle Street surface Terrace upper vessel vitrified vitrified forts wall WILLIAM wood
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